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yeah, i need to stop buying knives and start using themIt looked like it had never been sharpened... So I am doing my best to give it the use it should have had for 40 years!
yeah, i need to stop buying knives and start using themIt looked like it had never been sharpened... So I am doing my best to give it the use it should have had for 40 years!
I buy knives, no the guy that makes them.
There are a lot of areas in life where a small percentage of people use up a disproportionately large amount of resources
Not true I own a gen 6 spear point and have a wicked edge pro pack and a kme I use my knives a lot Abe don’t like to have anything less than hair popping sharpness so I sharpen every couple days to maintain and my hinderer is 100% noticeably wearing down the blade doesn’t look nearly as wide fro edge to spine as it did and same with my Chris reeve zaan it is really looking skimpy I’m actually sending it in for a blade replacement next week I’m purchasing a tanto and a drop point from Chris reeve my striders are the same way but I talked to a couple people at strider and they told me they would reblade my sng’s and my smf’s whenever I need them done. So yeah for this reason alone I’ll probably never buy another hinderer because if he can’t offer a service that won’t lose him any money but probably in the long run gain him money then I’ll take my business to companies that do.If you used and resharpened a Hinderer enough times to wear the blade into a stub, your arm will have fallen off.
You need to find a place with arm replacement, not blade replacement.
Someone would have to be an idiot with a belt sander to wear the blade down from resharpening. The blades are not narrow or thin.
Not true I like my knives hair popping sharp so I sharpen every couple days on my kme or wicked edge pro pack and have worn down my Chris reeve zaan and Xmas-18 gen 6 spear point with my zaan which I’m sending in next week for a reblade I am purchasing a tanto and a drop point that way I can rotate blades but for my hinderer I guess it’s just going to have to look stupid and skimpy so it will probably be thrown in the safe and out of rotation I own a ton of high end knives and even josh at strider knives said they would reblade my sng’s and my smf’s when I need them done I’m sure I could talk to Greg Medford on my usmc fighter flippers and Pretorian ti’s I’m sure he would reblade for a hefty price but cheaper than rebuying the knives which are all over a grand a piece. So I can easily be pleased with all things just offer a service that almost all other companies offer because it’s not like he would be doing it for free he just wants people to spend more money with him which I will 1000% not do anymore and will gladly take my business elsewhere because honestly my hinderers are my least carried knives all my other knives are far superior and would definitely out do my hinderers in any given torture test.Rick and Rob can have abrasive personalities to put it mildly. Their unwillingness to talk about detents and other issues turned me off to Hinderer for a long time but they must have finally listened and the last few I've handled have all been spot on with detent and overall quality. After trying a few XM18s several years ago and selling them all, I've tried again recently and have become a full on fanboy with a variety of their knives. I buy knives, no the guy that makes them. Hinderer, Strider (gasp), Emerson, Medford, etc. All these guys can be a pit prickly.
Regarding re-bladed knives: There are a lot of areas in life where a small percentage of people use up a disproportionately large amount of resources. I suspect that people wanting their knife "re-bladed" would fall into that category of people who are difficult or impossible to satisfy. How many people does RHK have putting knives together? A half dozen? There seems to be only a handful of different name cards that come in the box. Is it worth it to them to take one of those individuals away from assembling new knives to do custom requests? Should they hire someone else? I don't know but I'm not going to fault them for choosing not to re-blade knives.
Not true I like my knives hair popping sharp so I sharpen every couple days on my kme or wicked edge pro pack and have worn down my Chris reeve zaan and Xmas-18 gen 6 spear point with my zaan which I’m sending in next week for a reblade I am purchasing a tanto and a drop point that way I can rotate blades but for my hinderer I guess it’s just going to have to look stupid and skimpy so it will probably be thrown in the safe and out of rotation I own a ton of high end knives and even josh at strider knives said they would reblade my sng’s and my smf’s when I need them done I’m sure I could talk to Greg Medford on my usmc fighter flippers and Pretorian ti’s I’m sure he would reblade for a hefty price but cheaper than rebuying the knives which are all over a grand a piece. So I can easily be pleased with all things just offer a service that almost all other companies offer because it’s not like he would be doing it for free he just wants people to spend more money with him which I will 1000% not do anymore and will gladly take my business elsewhere because honestly my hinderers are my least carried knives all my other knives are far superior and would definitely out do my hinderers in any given torture test.
Why would they care if the customer is willing to pay for it?If you broke a blade on a Hinderer it’s probably your fault but if it was a defect they would cover it
What's not true? It seems you're illustrating my point that a small percentage of customers use a large amount of customer service resources. Sharpening yours knives "every couple days" seems like a physiological disorder. Seriously.Not true I like my knives hair popping sharp so I sharpen every couple days on my kme or wicked edge pro pack and have worn down my Chris reeve zaan and Xmas-18 gen 6 spear point with my zaan which I’m sending in next week for a reblade I am purchasing a tanto and a drop point that way I can rotate blades but for my hinderer I guess it’s just going to have to look stupid and skimpy so it will probably be thrown in the safe and out of rotation I own a ton of high end knives and even josh at strider knives said they would reblade my sng’s and my smf’s when I need them done I’m sure I could talk to Greg Medford on my usmc fighter flippers and Pretorian ti’s I’m sure he would reblade for a hefty price but cheaper than rebuying the knives which are all over a grand a piece. So I can easily be pleased with all things just offer a service that almost all other companies offer because it’s not like he would be doing it for free he just wants people to spend more money with him which I will 1000% not do anymore and will gladly take my business elsewhere because honestly my hinderers are my least carried knives all my other knives are far superior and would definitely out do my hinderers in any given torture test.